https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ufos en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/21/quiet-damage-details-heartbreaking-effect-qanon-five-american-families-critical The outlines of QAnon conspiracy theories are by now familiar to many. The battle of good-versus-evil personified by Donald Trump and the Deep State, which somehow also embroils bizarre and gruesome allegations of child trafficking, drinking adrenaline compounds to get… Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:00:43 EDT Susannah Crockford 4c8d61cb-aadc-4d87-90fd-e583441711f5 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/25/amid-anticipation-government-disclosure-we-are-not-alone-follows-those-who-claim-alien UFOs are in. The current wave of enthusiasm began in 2017 when major newspapers reported on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which spent $22 million investigating Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), with media homing in on the idea that… Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:18:26 EST Joseph Laycock da8c022c-a386-4566-b683-badda974fc1a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/09/12/civil-rights-liberals-new-age-conspiracy-theorists-what-betty-and-barney-hills-alien In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright cigar-shaped light on the highway that moved erratically before appearing to chase them. They fled and then told their story, which later became the first… Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:54:38 EDT Susannah Crockford 11b2bf80-dbd8-4c33-bf9e-8b545dd57b77 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/02/pelosi-attackers-new-age-spirituality-and-belief-qanon-no-contradiction Around 3 a.m. on October 28, David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband, with a hammer. During the attack, DePape yelled “Where’s Nancy?” raising concerns that his true intent was political assassination of the second-in-line… Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:13:30 EDT Susannah Crockford 00aa193f-62d6-43f6-b1a9-540cc58d949a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/23/inspired-anti-abortion-movement-and-qanon-anti-trans-rhetoric-blatant-call-violence They care for trans children and teenagers—and they’re getting death threats. On August 30th, Boston Children’s Hospital was shut down due to a bomb threat , and shut down a second time on September 9th, the latest in a series… Fri, 23 Sep 2022 03:01:47 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque b8fa6819-5726-427a-a0cf-bebf925256fd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/22/has-american-conservatism-abandoned-christian-right Most of us don’t want to grow up to be our parents, especially when we’re in our twenties and ready to forge our own path in the world. For better or for worse, age often proves that we’re more like… Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:08:57 EDT Bradley Onishi 50c9ce58-7193-43cb-8adf-6644f65e7c20 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/20/if-media-are-reluctant-properly-label-gops-racist-christian-nationalist-ideologies-well On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to kill people of color. He murdered ten people and wounded three others before he was arrested. All ten who were killed were Black. The racism… Fri, 20 May 2022 11:52:48 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 7baf028e-84e2-4d11-8a95-a7f4bb884b17 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/24/turn-news-why-ketanji-brown-jacksons-faith-doesnt-matter-amy-coney-barretts-did By the time you read this, Ketanji Brown Jackson will almost certainly have been confirmed to her seat on the US Supreme Court, barring any last-minute stalling tactics by Republicans or unanticipated defections by Democrats. Even so—and even though Jackson’s… Thu, 24 Mar 2022 05:46:44 EDT Daniel Schultz 9f7710d3-1cb4-4ce3-adae-e91bc61431a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/31/do-stormy-daniels-beliefs-paranormal-make-her-unfit-testify-lawsuit-against-her-former Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who rose to prominence as a result of her former relationship with Donald Trump, is testifying against her former lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who’s on trial for allegedly stealing $300,000 from Daniels (the money came… Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:04:29 EST Daniel Wise 4b0ad4d3-bed4-4b52-a98f-7d302ab73843 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/09/whats-missing-popular-discussions-todays-christian-nationalism If you want to know where the Republican Party is headed, you need to set aside your assumptions and simply listen to what its leaders and activists say—especially when they’re talking amongst themselves. As a reporter and author on the… Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:37:44 EDT Katherine Stewart 66119b48-f33a-4bdb-9132-15093a340a05 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/07/08/release-pentagon-report-ufo-narrative-belief-system-suddenly-supported-military-witness “A big problem with all this over the years is that pilots and others have seen things which just don’t add up, but have been afraid to share that information for fear that they would be laughed out of the… Thu, 08 Jul 2021 05:35:58 EDT Diana Pasulka ec993e68-e36c-4eaf-ae44-685b37067397 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/06/23/where-did-white-evangelicalisms-hatred-critical-race-theory-really-begin Critical Race Theory (CRT), the academic study in which students and scholars examine how race and racism function, is under attack by conservatives who claim that CRT promotes a distorted view of American history through a racial and ideological lens… Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:36:49 EDT Andre E. Johnson 5737f7b7-23a5-43f5-a7af-9906b50fc821 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/06/21/hulus-hamiltons-pharmacopeia-shows-we-can-no-longer-ignore-connections-between-religion If surveyed about the relationship between religion and drugs, I’d wager that a majority would not see any relationship at all. If they did see a relationship, they’d likely view it negatively: drugs and their use, at least the illicit… Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:56:37 EDT Hollis Phelps 2cd78566-1e1c-4b6c-89ad-d0682019117a https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/11/q-shamans-new-age-radical-right-blend-hints-blurring-seemingly-disparate-categories By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque glee. The becostumed horde, thronging through the windows, up the stairways, politely abiding by the velvet red ropes, as they stormed the Capitol building in… Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:53:41 EST Susannah Crockford 9dfce95c-8761-4903-960d-d1adc87cae29 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/10/28/qanons-predictions-havent-come-true-so-how-does-movement-survive-failure-prophecy John F. Kennedy Jr. is dead and has been dead for some time. In July 1999, the small plane he was traveling in crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, killing him and two others. The bodies of Kennedy and… Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:51:20 EDT Amarnath Amarasingam, Marc-André Argentino add453b3-6755-4075-8745-3c75197024f3 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/01/02/2017-around-world-progress-and-persecution-lgbt-people Journalist Masha Gessen dubbed 2017 “the year Russian LGBT persecution defied belief.” Pink News called 2017 “ the year of the homophobic purge” featuring “brutal crackdowns across the world.” The Daily Xtra’s year-end recap focused more on the good news… Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:38:20 EST Peter Montgomery f1967b35-d0f3-45ce-a3ef-7e4ff0ffe508 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/20/status-updates-end-world-religious-imagination-and-our-latest-apocalypse Revelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state tests of intercontinental missiles and the nuclear warheads with which to arm them. Headlines offer either a string of senseless horrors or an array of… Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:42:10 EDT Spencer Dew f0cb7754-5c1f-4693-99aa-d82d467dd9b2 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/18/eclipseville-usa-birthplace-little-green-men-proudly-hosts-point-greatest-eclipse There’s a lot happening in Hopkinsville, Kentucky the weekend of August 18. The town is hosting cast members from The Walking Dead and JEM at a local Comic Con; the director of the Vatican Observatory is giving a speech on… Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:34:39 EDT Matthew Bowman ebac6738-91a5-431b-860b-905963cac4c6 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/07/ask-muslim-what-neanderthals-and-aliens Not too long ago I received the following text: I’m gonna guess that your question isn’t about evolution, per se, but about what happens when religion appears to put us at odds with evolution. If modern humans had numerous ancestors… Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:02:05 EDT Haroon Moghul 8bf1ac03-5d95-485a-9113-4bbdb2292622 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/22/it-immoral-believe-miracles Whether it’s the Christmas miracle, the dreidel proclaiming that “a great miracle happened there,” or Saturday Night Live poking fun at the miracle narrative, ‘tis the season for miracle mentions to become commonplace. Thu, 22 Dec 2016 08:35:54 EST Noah Berlatsky 28aa76d1-531c-4fff-b7b4-0749347f93da https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/02/theology-westboro-worlds-meanest-church-more-picket-signs Why sacrifice so much—money, reputation, friendships, romantic relationships—to this cause? Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:00:10 EDT Rebecca Barrett-Fox 0f7bd7e6-d838-4fcd-9548-0f15f2693ba9 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/22/refusing-monsters-maple-street-first-person-commentary-mass-hysteria-jfk The mainstream discourse in the West describes the “War on Terror” as a “geopolitical” mission. When we speak of terrorism, we talk about territories held and lost by “extremists” and “insurgents,” the challenge of migrations and home-grown terror networks, subnational… Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:00:16 EDT Marion Grau d764d17b-ab55-44f8-9b44-5a2e86d83205 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/15/aliens-nanobots-microbes-science-secular-apocalypse A conversation with End Times scholar Phil Torres on killer aliens, killer nanobots, Tue, 15 Mar 2016 03:39:29 EDT Michael Schulson 252fb71f-289e-495a-9d51-16649997f64a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/16/how-would-religion-respond-extraterrestrials-thought-experiment It has now been almost two weeks since the press conference in Guizhou, China announcing that a recurring radio broadcast which appeared to be coming from NGC 6809 (a globular cluster located in the night sky near the constellation Sagittarius)… Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:41:19 EST Ed Simon 0bf985f3-999e-41cd-be97-c9a7dee59097 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/07/if-you-liked-martian-youll-love-these-3-sci-fi-shorts Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars as Mark Watney, a stranded astronaut whose limited supplies are made up for by an abundance of wit and ingenuity. The film has received wide… Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:23:05 EDT Andrew Aghapour 27a48991-889e-46e8-b08c-232fe8fa8285